Morning VC Brief丨2026.02.03

Week05 Highlights丨Decagon, Rogo, Upwind, Sixfold, Linq, Poetiq, FLORA, Blockit

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eric gu
February 03, 2026

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01. Venture News

1/ AI Customer Experience Platform Decagon Raised $250M Series D

  • Product: AI-powered concierge platform delivering personalized customer experiences through voice, chat, and email channels with Agent Operating Procedures

  • Highlight: 100+ new enterprise customers including Avis Budget Group, Block, Deutsche Telekom; serving F100 companies across airlines, banks, telecom, retail, and tech firms like Oura Health, Affirm, Chime

  • Investors: Coatue and Index Ventures (Lead), a16z, Accel, Bain Capital Ventures, Ribbit Capital

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2/ AI Platform for Finance Rogo Raised $75M Series C

  • Product: AI platform purpose-built for finance that executes end-to-end workflows across deals and investments

  • Highlight: 25,000+ bankers and investors using platform; 50,000+ daily queries; 500 years of full-time human work saved

  • Investor: Sequoia (Lead), Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures

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3/ Cloud Security Platform Upwind Raised $250M Series B at $1.5B

  • Product: Runtime cloud security platform with "inside-out" approach, prioritizing real-time threats and vulnerabilities in active services using internal signals like network requests and API traffic

  • Highlight: 900% YoY revenue growth; doubled customer base since Series A

  • Investor: Bessemer Venture Partners (Lead), Salesforce Ventures, Picture Capital

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4/ AI Underwriting Platform Sixfold Raised $30M Series B

  • Product: AI-powered underwriting platform that automates submission processing and risk assessment across Property & Casualty and Life & Health insurance

  • Highlights: Processed over 1 million submissions across 40+ lines of business; clients include Zurich North America, Skyward Specialty, Guardian

  • Investor: Brewer Lane (Lead), Guidewire (strategic investor), Bessemer Venture Partners, Salesforce Ventures

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5/ AI Messaging Infrastructure Platform Linq Raised $20M Series A

  • Product: API infrastructure enabling AI assistants and businesses to communicate natively within iMessage, RCS, and SMS with full platform capabilities

  • Highlight: Customer base grew 132% quarter-over-quarter; customer accounts expanded 34% on average; AI agents reach 134,000 monthly active users

  • Investor: TQ Ventures (Lead), Mucker Capital

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6/ Recursive AI Self-Improvement Platform Poetiq Raised $45.8M Seed

  • Product: Automated recursive self-improvement system that creates expert AI agents capable of dramatically outperforming underlying language models

  • Highlight: Demonstrated breakthrough performance on ARC-AGI benchmark; proven ability to enhance cost-efficient models to frontier-level performance

  • Investor: Surface, FYRFLY, Y Combinator, 468 Capital, Operator Collective, NeuronVC

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7/ AI-Native Creative Platform FLORA Raised $42M Series A

  • Product: Unified creative environment for generative AI that enables top-down creative workflows

  • Highlight: Millions of users; clients include Pentagram, AKQA, Red Antler, Lionsgate, MSCHF

  • Investor: Redpoint Ventures (Lead), a16z Speedrun, Long Journey Ventures, Company Ventures, Alumni Ventures

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8/ AI Calendar Scheduling Startup Blockit Raised $5M Seed

  • Product: AI agent platform for automated meeting scheduling that communicates directly with other calendars to negotiate times; learns user preferences, priorities, and constraints to handle scheduling autonomously without human intervention

  • Highlight: 200+ companies using platform including Together.ai, Brex, Rogo, a16z, Accel, Index Ventures; sent 2,000+ scheduling emails saving users 139 hours and eliminating 638 days of reply lag

  • Investor: Sequoia Capital(Lead)

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